Re: [PATCH] Add checks for kmalloc allocation failures

[Stefan Schmidt]

Hello.

On 03/29/2017 06:21 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-03-29 at 16:54 +0100, Colin King wrote:
> > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Ensure we don't end up with a null pointer dereferences by checking
> > for for allocation failures.  Allocate by sizeof(*ptr) rather than
> > the type to fix checkpack warnings.  Also merge multiple lines into
> > one line for the kmalloc call.
> >
> > Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1422435 ("Dereference null return value")
>
> OK, but could you change patch title to be less generic ?
>
> Also, what tree is this patch targeting ?
>
> # ls -l drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c
> ls: cannot access drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c: No such file or
> directory

This new driver is sitting in bluetooth-next right now for the next merge.

regards
Stefan Schmidt